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... that I’ll be working with as they have quite a high level of English!

This week I’ll be working Monday and Tuesday at Surgeres and Thursday at Courcon. Nathalie, the teacher that "looks after me" in Surgeres has invited me to stay at her house every time that I have back to back days in Surgeres, which is super helpful….it’s pretty expensive taking the bus back and forth.

This building, called la Corderie Royale, is where all of the ropes were made for different boats and ships, like Hermione. It is 374 meters long and the longest building in Europe. They had to make ropes close to 200 meters long and this explains the length of the Corderie Royale, because of the way the ropes were traditionally made in the past. The building was partially destroyed in a fire in 1944 during a bombing raid by the Germans. Later in ...

... the Americans win their independence in the American Revolutionary War, in 1793 it was shipwrecked.

In 1997, they started to build a replica ship with the intention of sailing it to Boston once again, just like during the American Revolutionary War. Now, in 2015….a short 18 years later, Hermione will be on her way to Boston, and will also be visiting the ports North of Boston, all the way up to Halifax, Nova ...

... have to meet at Poitiers 2 days a week for classes with all of the other new teachers.

So anyways, Caroline is from Bretagne, and crepes are the specialty there. She made us some yummy “salty crepes” so crepes, you’d eat for supper. We had ham, cheese and egg in ours. I would imagine you could add whatever you wanted though. Then she made us crepes for dessert as well. I must say I ate quite well that night! We watched a French movie, which ...

... this time coming to France was much more relaxed. I am confident enough in my language skills, I knew people here already, knew what I was going to, and I had already been to the Charles De Gaulle airport.

Here’s to some intentional travelling this second "half" of my stay here in Europe. And am I ever glad that this “half” is longer!